Jean Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers)
20cm x 40 cm lino print
Black ink on ivory card.
The sewing machine thunders downstairs into the wee hours of the morning, as Gunta enters her final university week in a billowing mass of black cotton and calico. For my part I am keeping a low profile, offering occasional words of encouragement, food and drink to the best of my ability and doing the odd bit of modelling! To this end linocutting/printing is pretty unobtrusive whilst keeping me on the spot in case emergency biscuits are required to be fetched.
So here is JJ Burnel up on one leg in what... 1983? Thanks to Mick A for the image.
It was a great image from which to do a linoprint. Despite the fact that the facial features are reduced down to part of his nose and his cheek, the rest being lost in shadow, there is no room for doubt as to who the subject is. I would go so far to say that even when featureless you know that expression on his face behind the shadow!
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